Kevin Smith's Podcast Sucks
Editor's Note: This was supposed to be posted last, last thursday. Sorry, Drew!
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I'm writing this from work because, well it's Thursday and I haven't written anything yet. I'm kind of under the gun here.
At
my wife's suggestion I wrote a whole post about burritos. Luckily for
all of you I developed some sanity before going too far with that, but
I'll keep it in my back pocket for someday when I'm really desperate
for ideas.
It's kind of ironic that, given
how hard it is sometimes for me to come up with anything to write about
week after week, I've been seriously toying (oxymoron?) with the idea
of starting a podcast.
Now overall,
starting a podcast is dead simple. You record something, somehow, then
put it on the... web? Right. It's easy to get started, but I'm
historically a starter.
You know how some
people are non-starters? I'm a starter, i.e. a non-finisher. It's
gotten so bad that within the last few years I'm such a non-finisher
that I've almost flirted with the idea of becoming a non-starter
altogether. "Close the loop" as they say in the boardrooms of America.
I've
read David Allen's crap-tacular fiction piece "Getting Things Done" and
cruised the websites that it's inspired. One of the few concepts that
I've managed to take away from that is the "Someday" list. Mine is
growing.
I do however want to move the
"Start a Podcast" from "Someday" to "Today", which is fairly trivial to
do. The problem is that I would like to be sure I do so in such a way
that it doesn't move right out of "Today" and into "Yesterday". I want
to be sure I've set myself up for success, as it were.
Sorry, sitting in this office just brings out the CEO Bingo in me.
My
main concern obviously is with TIME. When the hell am I supposed to do
this? I can barely scrape together 10 songs worth of a time to write a
blog post, much less record and edit a podcast.
Then
of course there's content. I'm leaving time out of the equation for now
and focusing on what the hell I'm supposed to talk about. There are
many facets to my life, including some never really discussed here (my
day job, for one), so I've got several areas of interest I could ramble
on about.
In other words, I can bore the shit out of you people six ways from Sunday.
Advice welcome.
Jimmy Scotch
in drew lanning
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WE should do a podcast, Drew...we can get a live chat like AIM or MSN Messenger going and have people ask us questions in realtime and then we can bullshit about whatever we want. How that for some advice?
I could dig it. You guys should go for it!
Because, y'know, I enjoy listening to bullshit. Which is why I'll occasionally tune in to Fox News...
My favorite burritos are the ones at Burrito Express on Divisidero and Bush, never have i ever seen so many options of veggie burrito, and they toast them after they're wrapped up soooooo goood.... mmmmmm, burritos... i have to get my fill of them now before going back to latin america, which, funnily enough, they don't know how to make a good burrito if they're life depended on it... california truly is the mecca of filling an entire meal into a tasty flour tortilla...
sorry, couldn't stop thinking about burritos after i read the first sentence...
Miguel, I typically have so little to write about that I can only hope to wrap the reader's mind in something nonsequitorial right off the bat, in order to distract from the fact that the rest of the post is filled with drivel.
Jennifer, I have toyed with the idea of getting a sidekick. I'll let you know.
I like Panchos on Geary...they have a homemade bbq sauce burrito called a borracho or something...
thanks for the blog drew...I would totally subscribe to your podcast, but probably forget to listen to it like I forget to listen to all my podcasts...
Howabout a web-log? You saw how succesful day spa was...
Jeez, sounds like I should have stuck with the burritos.